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The Four Stragglers
Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
Four men trapped in a shell-shocked trench during the Great War forge a dark alliance that echoes across oceans and years.
The Golden Circle: A Mystery Story for Girls
Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell
When a young French dancer loses her theatre gig in depression-era Chicago, an antique auction brings her a bizarre brass idol, a circle of fiercely loyal friends, and a mystery that trails her from Maxwell Street to the grand stage.
The Heir
Sydney C. Grier
A young scholar in Cambridge learns he is the sole rightful heir to a lost Byzantine crown, only to be swept into the lethal political maneuvers of the Balkan Peninsula.
The History of the Lady Betty Stair
Molly Elliot Seawell
A single misunderstanding can echo through a lifetime, yet duty and grace can rebuild what circumstance tore apart.
The Idol of Paris
Sarah Bernhardt
A gifted young actress captures the heart of Paris, but the dark undercurrents of aristocratic obsession and high-society rivalry soon threaten to destroy everything she holds dear.
The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 02, July 11, 1840
Various
Deep within the precipitous, green-sloped face of Kish-Corran, hidden doorways carved into tabular limestone lead to unfathomable subterranean depths.
The Junior Trophy
Ralph Henry Barbour
Four boarding school boys form a pact to buy a baseball cup, turning a snowbound winter of pranks and small rebellion into a spirited campaign.
The Lost Gold of the Montezumas: A Story of the Alamo
William O. Stoddard
A desperate fight for Texas independence collides with an ancient Aztec priest’s quest to retrieve the lost, sacred gold of Montezuma.
The Mating of the Moons
Bryce Walton
A disillusioned tourist on a commercialized Mars breaks away from the packaged lies to chase a deadly, shimmering truth.
The Matsuyama Mirror
James, T. H., Mrs.
A mirror becomes a sacred bridge between the living and the dead, transforming a simple domestic object into a vessel for grief, memory, and the enduring power of maternal love in rural Japan.
The Mentor: Two Early German Painters, Dürer and Holbein, Vol. 1, Num. 48, Serial No. 48
Frank Jewett Mather
Two master artists navigate the religious upheavals of Northern Europe, leaving behind a legacy of uncompromising technical mastery and immortal human portraiture.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 332, September 20, 1828
Various
A rustic home in Shottery stands untouched by modern hands, holding the simple furnishings that once framed the quiet romantic life of a world-renowned playwright.
The motion picture comrades aboard a submarine
Elmer Tracey Barnes
Three adventurous boys board an experimental diving-boat equipped with searchlights and film gear, braving aggressive rivals and treacherous marine life to record the ocean depths and salvage lost gold.
The New Boy at Hilltop, and Other Stories
Ralph Henry Barbour
These stories capture the spirited, often grueling apprenticeship of young men finding their courage, character, and brotherhood within the structured traditions of American schools and colleges.
The Old Church Clock
Richard Parkinson
A youth leaves his mountain valley for a noisy industrial town, carrying a firm faith that keeps him steady when new ideas and strange people try to pull him off course.
The Pacha of Many Tales
Frederick Marryat
A powerful governor seeks distraction from the perilous insecurity of his office, unwittingly opening his court to a endless procession of yarns, tall tales, and nested histories.
The Princess Casamassima (Volume 2 of 2)
Henry James
A delicate young London bookbinder finds himself torn between his passionate aesthetic awakening to beauty and a secret political oath that demands a terrible sacrifice.
The Princess Elopes
Harold MacGrath
An adventurous princess, desperate to escape an arranged marriage to a much older man, finds her fate unexpectedly intertwined with an American traveler. Their collision results in a high-stakes, comedic chase across a fictional European duchy.
The Runaway Equator, and the Strange Adventures of a Little Boy in Pursuit of It
Lilian Bell
Caught in a mid-afternoon daydream over his geography lesson, a young boy escapes the backyard garden to chase down the world's most important imaginary line before global climate collapses into utter absurdity.
The Sense of Wonder
Stephen Marlowe
Lost in a boundless cosmic void, a forgotten human crew forgets its destination until a solitary voyager dares to question the automated world keeping them alive.
The Silence: What It Is and How To Use It
David V. (David Van) Bush
To achieve health, prosperity, and inner peace, one must master the art of mental tuning by entering a state of intentional silence. This disciplined stillness allows the mind to release destructive patterns and reconnect with the Divine.
The South Sea Whaler
William Henry Giles Kingston
A whaling captain’s children survive a harrowing mutiny and shipwreck, finding their way to safety through faith, ingenuity, and the help of a devoted crew member.
The Spirit of Sweetwater
Hamlin Garland
In the high air of Colorado, a wealthy miner meets a dying woman whose frail life calls forth his own fierce, hidden capacity for healing and moral grace.
The Story of a Bold Tin Soldier
Laura Lee Hope
A toy tin captain leads his men through nocturnal parlor room maneuvers, rescues scorched clowns, survives sugar barrels, and defends a doll from a local dog.
The Story of Red Feather: A Tale of the American Frontier
Edward Sylvester Ellis
A brother and sister trapped in a log cabin by a Dakota raiding party rely on an unexpected act of mercy from a Sioux leader to survive the night.
The Unforgiving Offender
John Reed Scott
A woman with a shadowed past returns to a high-society resort, daring her former peers to cast the first stone.
The White Virgin
George Manville Fenn
A young engineer, a secretive soldier's daughter, and an unprincipled brother collide in a mountain dale where hidden lead veins match the explosive, volatile passions underground.
The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen
Roger T. (Roger Thompson) Finlay
Surviving on a remote island takes more than raw courage; it requires practical science, heavy-duty ingenuity, and an absolute mastery of the wilderness.
The wooing of Rosamond Fayre
Berta Ruck
Love-letters written by proxy, a misplaced identity, and the sudden drop into the Great War frame a romance where a secret written in pink petals alters three lives.
The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. I, No 1, February 1836)
Various
Young scholars balance serious reflections on historical progress with personal romantic melodrama, playful regional dialect, and casual classical translations in this initial issue of a collegiate literary periodical.
Tinkle, the Trick Pony: His Many Adventures
Richard Barnum
Driven by an restless urge for adventure, a young pony slips past his pasture fence, only to find that the road through dray stables and circus tents leads straight back to the children who loved him.
Tom Swift circling the globe
Victor Appleton
A young inventor takes on a global aviation challenge, braving mechanical breakdowns, hostile wilderness encounters, and sabotage to fly around the world in twenty days.
Trailin'!
Max Brand
A Eastern swell's impulsive moment in the ring plunges him into a deadly range war, where a dark family secret and an unforgiving desert force him to prove his iron grit.
Travels in Virginia in Revolutionary Times
Unknown
A world shaped by war, wilderness, and new political ideals comes alive through the eyes of European travelers traversing Virginia from the late colonial era into the early republic.
Trotwood's Monthly, Vol. I, No. 2, November 1905
Various
Only the game fish swims upstream. This simple, persistent ideal drives a turn-of-the-century collection of Southern life, land, and lore.
Truthful Jane
Florence Morse Kingsley
A proud, penniless English orphan flees her aunt’s cold household for New York, only to find that surviving as a parlor maid requires a stubborn commitment to the truth.
Vicky Van
Carolyn Wells
A young woman leads a double life just steps from Fifth Avenue, until a murder in her drawing room forces her into hiding and brings a shrewd detective to unmask the truth.
War Rhymes by Wayfarer
Abner Cosens
Poignant verses chronicle the Great War’s disruption of everyday life, blending home-front anxieties and battlefield grimness with the colloquial laments of a fictional German soldier named Fritz.
Whitehall
W. J. (William John) Loftie
A muddy Thames riverbank yields to a grand, lost royal palace through centuries of architectural ambition and political upheaval.
Who Goes There?
Charles H. Davis
Squid-like telepaths search Earth’s ocean depths for intelligent life to save their distant world, only to meet a tragic end from human weapons.
Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels
Stephen Leacock
A sharp needle of satire punctures the absurdities of popular fiction, puncturing overblown romance, imperial anxieties, and detective cliches.
With Zola in England: A Story of Exile
Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
A celebrated novelist is driven into secret exile after taking a stand for an innocent man, finding himself stranded in an unfamiliar country where he must dodge reporters, endure isolation, and quietly await his day of justice.
A biographical memoir of the late Dr. Walter Oudney, Captain Hugh Clapperton, both of the Royal Navy, and Major Alex. Gordon Laing, all of whom died amid their active and enterprising endeavours to explore the interior of Africa
Thomas Nelson
These men ventured into the vast, uncharted interior of the African continent, driven by an insatiable curiosity that ultimately cost them their lives in the pursuit of scientific and geographical discovery.
A Cigarette-Maker's Romance
F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
An impoverished Russian aristocrat clings to a delusion of returning to his lost fortune while working in a Munich cigarette factory, sustained only by the quiet devotion of a woman who loves him.
A Fall of Glass
Stanley R. Lee
Every lock has its key, but under the controlled ceiling of a fake sky, a simple obsession with weather can shatter an entire world.
A Garden of Girls
Concannon, Thomas, Mrs.
Guided by the belief that a nation’s strength is rooted in the character of its women, these historical sketches trace the education of notable girls across centuries and cultures. The portraits serve as an inquiry into the ideal of the "Valiant Woman," examining how different eras have sought to cultivate both the…
A Man of the Moors
Halliwell Sutcliffe
The moors are not merely a backdrop in this stark, rugged novel; they are a living force that shapes the souls, passions, and violent ends of those who dwell among them. It is a haunting exploration of human obsession set against the unforgiving landscape of the Yorkshire hills.
A manual of pyrotechny
G. W. Mortimer
This guide serves as a practical, technical manual for the 19th-century enthusiast, detailing the chemistry and mechanical construction required to master the art of recreative fireworks.